I felt like giving Sue a hug, even though I'm pretty sure that she'd immediately hit me for both the unprovoked physical contact and the unspoken assumption that she was weak.
It's probably a bad sign that this still doesn't mark it as the show with the most characters/writers I want to punch.
I don't. Frankly, I feel that this show is a bit of a broken aesop. I came away from this episode going 'Will, if you were going to sink to her level... at least stick to your guns.'
It's probably a bad sign that this still doesn't mark it as the show with the most characters/writers I want to punch.
Well, my sympathy for Sue is due to my realization why I am entertained by her antics rather than be pissed off by them as I would in others: Because she doesn't make anyone else look bad by association, doesn't claim her opinions are anything but the way she thinks the world should be.
Whereas if Glenn Beck decided to launch a pro-littering campaign because it's biblically correct and you should leave a church that doesn't follow his views of what is biblical, I would offer my sympathies to all Christians.
And the fact that she's fictional means you can offer yourself the comforting lie that no one is really that bad in the real world.
The punchiest show is FlashForward, which alternated between moments that purely worked and rang as true and moments that made you wonder how anyone could ever think the implemented plans would ever work. Between characters that you love and want to see more of and characters that were too stupid to live and should at least be fired. The writers had this idea for a huge overreaching arc, had it all planned out five seasons in advance, and because they didn't bother ensuring that people would want to tune in for the first season to see all the buildup it got axed.
*sigh* I would've watched an entire series about Keiko, but she only got four episodes. She was so awesome.
Also Desperate Housewives, which . . . I actually forget why I ever started watching, but it's more entertaining if you imagine all the chaos and high crime rates and horrible examples of humanity are due to Wisteria Lane being located on a Hellmouth.
The writers had this idea for a huge overreaching arc, had it all planned out five seasons in advance, and because they didn't bother ensuring that people would want to tune in for the first season to see all the buildup it got axed.
This sounds like people trying to copy the magic of Lost and no managing it.
Bingo. It was on ABC, and given that they were making it out to be something you had to watch for five seasons to ensure you figured out everything that was going on, it was fairly clear they were aiming for it to be the next Lost.
In one season, they managed to get most of the characters into the previously unlikely situations which they'd seen themselves in, and found out that someone had done it rather deliberately (but not why they'd do it to everyone on the planet, given the fatalities when it went down) but that was pretty much it. Not even any explanation for the kangaroo.
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It's probably a bad sign that this still doesn't mark it as the show with the most characters/writers I want to punch.
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It's probably a bad sign that this still doesn't mark it as the show with the most characters/writers I want to punch.
What show wins that honor?
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Whereas if Glenn Beck decided to launch a pro-littering campaign because it's biblically correct and you should leave a church that doesn't follow his views of what is biblical, I would offer my sympathies to all Christians.
And the fact that she's fictional means you can offer yourself the comforting lie that no one is really that bad in the real world.
The punchiest show is FlashForward, which alternated between moments that purely worked and rang as true and moments that made you wonder how anyone could ever think the implemented plans would ever work. Between characters that you love and want to see more of and characters that were too stupid to live and should at least be fired. The writers had this idea for a huge overreaching arc, had it all planned out five seasons in advance, and because they didn't bother ensuring that people would want to tune in for the first season to see all the buildup it got axed.
*sigh* I would've watched an entire series about Keiko, but she only got four episodes. She was so awesome.
Also Desperate Housewives, which . . . I actually forget why I ever started watching, but it's more entertaining if you imagine all the chaos and high crime rates and horrible examples of humanity are due to Wisteria Lane being located on a Hellmouth.
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This sounds like people trying to copy the magic of Lost and no managing it.
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In one season, they managed to get most of the characters into the previously unlikely situations which they'd seen themselves in, and found out that someone had done it rather deliberately (but not why they'd do it to everyone on the planet, given the fatalities when it went down) but that was pretty much it. Not even any explanation for the kangaroo.